Michael Starbird is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin and a member of UT’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He has received more than a dozen teaching awards including several that are awarded to only one professor at UT annually and including the Mathematical Association of America’s 2007 national teaching award. Starbird wrote, with co-author Edward B. Burger, the award-winning mathematics textbook for liberal arts students The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking and the trade book Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas. His Teaching Company video courses in the Great Courses Series on calculus, statistics, and probability annually reach thousands of people in the general public. David Marshall, Edward Odell, and Starbird wrote the guided inquiry textbook Number Theory Through Inquiry, which appeared in the MAA’s Textbook Series. He has served as a Member-at-large of the Council of the American Mathematical Society and on the national education committees of both the AMS and MAA. In 1989, Starbird was UT’s Recreational Sports Super Racquets Champion.